Patron saint festival In 300 days
Feast of Saint Lawrence
📅 Every year, on 10 August
On 10 August Oldenico, a municipality of 252 inhabitants in the province of Vercelli, celebrates its patron Saint Lawrence (san Lorenzo).
The arms of Oldenico sum the place up: seven silver rice ears on blue, the name ODINICUM in capitals above, and below a lowered pall, the Y-shaped figure, silver and wavy blue. The rice is that of the Vercelli plain around the village, and part of the municipal territory lies in the Lame del Sesia nature park; the water is that of the three courses that close the village almost into a peninsula, the Sesia, the Cervo and the Marchiazza.
That position between rivers counted. Oldenico was granted to the Church of Vercelli by a diploma of Frederick Barbarossa in 1152, then passed to the counts of Biandrate and came under the commune of Vercelli, which contested control of the Sesia with Novara. Of the Biandrate castle there remain the inner courtyard, a stretch of the outer wall and the front, which still shows its early stone masonry.
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Castello Sanfelice 📍 Bagnoli del Trigno · 4.1 km At 783 metres above Bagnoli, the fortress that guarded the Castel di Sangro-Lucera drove road. chiesa di San Silvestro 📍 Bagnoli del Trigno · 4.5 km A church with no façade, wedged between two rocks, and a crucifix with jointed arms. Castello d'Evoli 📍 Castropignano · 9.4 km Legend gives it 365 rooms: the d'Evoli stronghold above the Biferno valley Santuario italico di Pietrabbondante 📍 Pietrabbondante · 11 km The theatre and temples where the Pentri Samnites gathered their senate, above the Trigno. castello D'Alessandro 📍 Pescolanciano · 11 km A drawbridge finished in 1691, relics in the ducal chapel, German officers in 1943. torre di Oratino 📍 Oratino · 12 km A doorway high above the ground and a ladder to haul up: the Norman tower of Oratino.